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Post by Flaming Paul on Oct 1, 2009 22:26:47 GMT -5
Article: news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091001/ap_on_sc/us_sci_before_lucyThe story of humankind is reaching back another million years as scientists learn more about "Ardi," a hominid who lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia. The 110-pound, 4-foot female roamed forests a million years before the famous Lucy, long studied as the earliest skeleton of a human ancestor. Lucy was the name that researchers called the hominid while they were listening to the radio and The Beatles' song, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" was playing. [google]Lucy Hominid[/google]
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